Rock Song Index

Rock Song Index

Author: Bruce Pollock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 1135462968

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The Rock Song Index, Second Edition, is a new version of a well-received index to the classic songs of the rock canon, from the late '40s through the end of the 20th century. The study of the history of rock music has exploded over the last decade; all college music departments offer a basic rock-history course, covering the classic artists and their songs.


The Rock Song Index

The Rock Song Index

Author: Bruce Pollock

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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A listing of over 7,500 rock songs presented alphabetically by artist that notes the album the song appeared on, its year of release, the producer, record company, and songwriters. Also briefly describes the song or its popularity and features an index alphabetized by song title.


History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Author: Greil Marcus

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0300190301

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The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun. “Transmission” by Joy Division. “All I Could Do Was Cry” by Etta James and then Beyoncé. “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus’s hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic. “One of the epic figures in rock writing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.”—The Washington Post Winner of the Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award in Music Criticism, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers


Song Finder

Song Finder

Author: Gary Lynn Ferguson

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1995-06-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313294704

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An index to the contents of 621 song books published between 1854 and 1992 and acquired by the State Library of Louisiana, Song Finder provides access to 32,000 songs, with emphasis on collections of theater songs, folk songs, children's songs, religious music, rock, country, and pop music standards. Also well represented are African-American music, movie and television theme songs, seasonal music, patriotic songs, military music, and songs of foreign lands. Three-fourths of the song books have never been indexed, and 85 percent are not included in any index currently in print. A third of the individual songs have never been indexed before. Songs can be located in Song Finder by title only. Under each title are letter symbols representing song books which include the song. Bibliographical information on the song books can be found in the first section of the book, the list of collections indexed, which also provides OCLC numbers to facilitate interlibrary loan. For each printing of a song, Song Finder notes whether the book provides music only, words only, or both words and music. The index also identifies lyrics in a foreign language and whether there is an English translation. Other indexes do not offer this kind of detail, which allows users to find the version of a song that is suitable to their needs. Also helpful to the user are cross references which link alternate titles and compensate for variant and nonstandard spellings. Users uncertain of the title of an advertising jingle, or the theme song of a film or television show, will find cross references from the name of the product or show to the correct song title.


A More Beautiful Question

A More Beautiful Question

Author: Warren Berger

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1620401460

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To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness-yet often discouraged in our schools and workplaces-it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels, and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question-and to do so deeply, imaginatively, and “beautifully.” In this fascinating exploration of the surprising power of questioning, innovation expert Warren Berger reveals that powerhouse businesses like Google, Nike, and Netflix, as well as hot Silicon Valley startups like Pandora and Airbnb, are fueled by the ability to ask fundamental, game-changing questions. But Berger also shares human stories of people using questioning to solve everyday problems-from “How can I adapt my career in a time of constant change?” to “How can I step back from the daily rush and figure out what really makes me happy?” By showing how to approach questioning with an open, curious mind and a willingness to work through a series of “Why,” “What if,” and “How” queries, Berger offers an inspiring framework of how we can all arrive at better solutions, fresh possibilities, and greater success in business and life.


The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

Author: Ellen Luchinsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-23

Total Pages: 1384

ISBN-13: 1135659265

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The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.


Classic Rock Fake Book (Songbook)

Classic Rock Fake Book (Songbook)

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1999-02-01

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1458432432

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(Fake Book). An invaluable collection of over 250 of the best rock songs of all time, with nearly 70 new songs added for this spectacular 2nd Edition! For piano, voice, guitar and all C instruments, this fake book includes melody, lyrics and chords for: All Right Now * Amanda * American Woman * Angie * Another One Bites the Dust * Baby, I Love Your Way * Back in the U.S.S.R. * Barracuda * Beast of Burden * Can't You See * Carry On Wayward Son * Centerfold * Cocaine * Come Sail Away * Don't Do Me Like That * Don't Stop * Dream On * Dust in the Wind * Every Breath You Take * Free Ride * Hurts So Good * I Shot the Sheriff * Imagine * I Want You to Want Me * Imagine * It's Still Rock and Roll to Me * Killer Queen * Lay Down Sally * Layla * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Maggie May * My Generation * Nights in White Satin * Owner of a Lonely Heart * Piano Man * Point of Know Return * Refugee * Rhiannon * Rock and Roll All Nite * Roxanne * Something * Summer of '69 * Sunshine of Your Love * Susie-Q * Take the Long Way Home * Tears in Heaven * Walk This Way * We Will Rock You * White Room * Wonderful Tonight * You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet * and lots more! Features two tables of contents: one by artist, and one alphabetical by song title.


500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics

500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics

Author: Ronald Herder

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-01-23

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0486171523

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Complete lyrics for well-known folk songs, hymns, popular and show tunes, more. Oh Susanna, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, hundreds more. Indispensable for singalongs, parties, family get-togethers, etc.


Form as Harmony in Rock Music

Form as Harmony in Rock Music

Author: Drew Nobile

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0190948388

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Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for 1960s, 70s, and 80s classic rock repertoire, showing how songs in this genre are not simply a series of discrete elements, but rather exhibit cohesive formal-harmonic structures across their entire timespan. Though many elements contribute to the cohesion of a song, the rock music of these decades is built around a fundamentally harmonic backdrop, giving rise to distinct types of verses, choruses, and bridges. Nobile's rigorous but readable theoretical analysis demonstrates how artists from Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder to Madonna consistently turn to the same compositional structures throughout rock's various genres and decades, unifying them under a single musical style. Using over 200 transcriptions, graphs, and form charts, Form as Harmony in Rock Music advocates a structural approach to rock analysis, revealing essential features of this style that would otherwise remain below our conscious awareness.